Mission accomplished

[redbird]

We are essentially done at Mom’s flat. I didn’t have a lot to do today, but am still tired. We will decide tomorrow what if anything we want to do.

Leaving for Boston Monday afternoon.

We had Chinese food delivered tonight, and it was basic good Cantonese food. They included a small bag of those weird shrimp chips, which I turned out to be in the mood for.

Comments

[otter]

are they the puffed crispy ones? If so, I used to buy those often as hard discs and puff them in the microwave.

[redbird]

They're the ones that look a bit like styrofoam, and are sometimes dyed weird colors--pink and pale green. I looked at them, and told adrian_turtle that the odd white tings weren't turtle food, because she doesn't eat shellfish, and I think they have a little actual shrimp.

[otter]

Then those are the same ones I was describing. Having read the ingredients, I do believe they have real shrimp of some sort in them.

[cmcmck]

Prawn crackers as they are known here.

[liv]

Well done! That is a huge effort, so glad you can go home satisfied.

[ofearthandstars]

Well done on finishing up the flat - that sort of labor (even just sorting paperwork) is tiring both emotionally and physically which makes it a subtle double-whallop.

[bibliofile]

I'm glad that you were able to accomplish all that. Such a lot of necessary work, emotional and physical.

[redbird]

It was, and we're not done yet.

My brother sent photos of all the jewelry to our cousins, asking what they wanted. All three of them answered with things like "I love this ring, but if someone else also wants it, my second and third choices from this photo are X and Y" and "also, any plain chains nobody else wants."

It sounds as though a lot of the jewelry will be going to people who will wear it and/or look at it and remember that it was my mother's.

Meanwhile, Mark and I are both dealing with various formwork related to my mother's bank accounts etc. "Etc." includes the life insurance policy she bought at the suggestion of someone at her bank, instead of rolling over a CD when the interest rates were almost zero. But that part of the work is less emotional, and it looks as though the only relevant deadlines are that there are things we should do in 2025 for reasons to do with taxes.